EFINIX

Realization of Advantages in the Power Performance Domain

This Trion® platform is manufactured using SMIC's 40nm LL process, offering logic density ranging from 4,000 to 120,000 logic elements (LE) and integrating standard interfaces such as GPIO, PLL, oscillators, MIPI, DDR, and LVDS. Trion FPGAs target the general-purpose custom logic market (mobile, IoT, general consumer products, industrial equipment, medical devices, etc.). They also support rapidly growing markets such as deep learning and compute accelerators in edge devices.

Simple,Easy-to-Use Toolflow

Efinix®'s Efinity® provides a complete toolflow from RTL design to bitstream generation. It supports a simple, easy-to-use GUI interface and command-line scripting, and includes all the tools necessary for designing on Titanium and Trion® FPGAs.

Download Efinity Software - Free

Efinix provides Efinity software licenses free of charge. Additionally, purchasing a development kit includes a software license and one year of upgrades. After the initial year, you can request free maintenance updates. The version you receive supports all Efinix FPGAs, not the feature-limited Web Edition.
To obtain a free license, register at the Support Center on the official Efinix website. Next, click the Efinity page to request your free license. You will receive the license and one year of maintenance (upgrades and patches). You can request an additional year of maintenance free of charge at any time.

- New Features in v2024.1

Efinity Software V2024.1 includes the following new features and enhancements:

• Introducing Titanium FPGA Transceiver Support
  - Supports PCI Express Gen4x4
  - Supports Ethernet 10GBase-KR
• 新New Device Support: Ti375 N1156 and N484 packages, Ti240 and Ti165 FPGAs
• Added bitstream support for Ti35 and Ti60 F256 packages and Ti60 FPGA
• Improved Tcl scripts for timing analysis
• Improved compilation time for Titanium designs
• New Efinity Transceiver Debugger tool to assist with transceiver debugging and analysis
• New IP Packager tool to package design files as standalone IP for use in IP Manager
• Updated Python API for transceiver blocks

Get started with the kit

Efinix development kits help you quickly start designing with Efinix FPGAs. With each kit, you also receive a license for Efinity® software. Efinix offers several daughter cards separately, in addition to the card included in the kit.

Kits for MIPI CSI-2

Some Efinix Trion FPGAs feature a hardened MIPI CSI-2 block, providing excellent camera sensor interfaces and sufficient logic for image processing. The hard DDR DRAM memory controller can connect to frame buffers or other system memory. Efinix's MIPI CSI-2-based development kits connect to Raspberry Pi and other cameras, making it easy to prototype vision applications.

I/O Expansion Kit

Efinix's I/O Expansion Kit provides access to I/O through connectors and headers on the board. These boards feature LEDs and switches, plus an additional clock oscillator on the board. They can be connected to other boards via headers and connectors or used standalone to demonstrate processing capabilities.

Detailed Information

• Evaluation Kit Product Page

To deliver the best power, performance, and area (size) for silicon products, Efinix designed the Quantum® architecture, a leader in programmable technology. Our goal is to provide the most flexible programmable technology tailored for compute-intensive applications such as machine learning, deep learning, and high-speed computation accelerators.

Switchable Logic and Routing (XLR) Cells

The fundamental building block of the Quantum® fabric is the switchable logic and routing (XLR) cell. The XLR cell functions as a LUT-based logic cell and as a routing switch transformed by a scalable and flexible routing structure. Software determines whether an XLR cell is logic or wiring. Having dedicated logic and dedicated wiring might seem like a good idea. However, most complex logic blocks have numerous input and output signals. Using all input and output signals would prevent access to the remaining logic within the block. Because any XLR cell can be used for wiring, software can avoid congestion and select the optimal path.

Comparison with traditional FPGAs and first-generation Quantum® fabric

Conventional FPGAs are designed with a fixed ratio of logic elements to wiring resources. This ratio is critical: insufficient wiring resources prevent proper connection of logic elements, leading to underutilization of the FPGA. Conversely, excessive wiring resources waste silicon area, increasing the chip cost.

Thanks to XLR cells, Efinix® FPGAs are smaller, consume less power, and are more efficient than traditional FPGAs. Unlike traditional FPGAs, Efinix® FPGAs are manufactured using standard CMOS silicon processes. Using standard processes makes our FPGAs easier to produce and optimizes high-volume manufacturing.

Level Up with Quantum® Computing Fabric

The second-generation Quantum® Computing Fabric incorporates high-efficiency XLR cells, along with 10K memory blocks and high-performance DSP blocks, to enable even greater computational processing and flexible interconnectivity.

The Quantum computing architecture consists of configurable tiles, switchable logic, and interconnect (XLR) cells, optimizing interconnect efficiency and speed while achieving high utilization. This architecture also incorporates highly configurable embedded memory blocks and dedicated high-speed DSP blocks. Combining these features delivers optimal performance for a wide range of applications, from edge computing to industrial automation and video processing.

• 16 nm Process
• Triple the clock frequency over the first generation
• Double the efficiency over the first generation
• Ultra-small die size
• Low power consumption